In the end, there was never to be any re-construction of
the Kingdom of Allah. The troops just left as they always do. After weary
unfruitful years the money runs out, citizens loose interest and fearing
attrition, army commanders advise
withdrawal.
Just like in the time of Rome’s domestic woes and chores,
the “Barbarian” tribes capitalise on the situation and rush to fill any vacuum.
But the goal is not to sack London or Washington, but to
claim Islamic authority over the Kingdom of Allah - A kingdom, floating not on
prayer but gas and oil.
Religion, for some, may be a bit of a laugh, but for
others it is serious business.
Christianity’s once dominate position in the marketplace
for trade, control and influence is no longer a top brand name. It doesn't do
it for the shopper anymore. Asian labour
is the “New Trade” – A payoff for the inventing Western haves, to monetise - the
work for very little have-nots.
And in the middle-east vacuum, Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi
Arabia sees one hundred years of wealth and power up for grabs.
The mechanism for control is the redrawing of the map by
Arabs, Kurds and Persians, rubbing out colonial lines drawn by France and
Britain after 1918 and post Ottoman rule.
Kurdish aspirations are as
strong as ever. Turkish PKK, Iraqi
Peshmerga, and Syrian YPG fighters are
the now cutting edge of a future Kurdistan. Islamic State fighters are soldiers of Sunni destiny and defenders of the Kingdom of Allah.
Who will loose! Can
Turkey suffer the indignation of reverting to an Anatolian heartland to ponder its
Empire’s final trumpet into history. Will Iran, if stopped in its bid to reach the Mediterranean,
turn east and with Pakistan swallow up a weak and failed Afghanistan.
The map is a vision, not a truth – not just yet!